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Blind Gee 032 "Vino Nero" purty durty

Posted by Glenn Reither on June 28, 2012 at 10:37pm
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Another demo showing some purty stuff with the PASSIVE tone on full, and some durty stuff with the tone on 40%. Without the tone control, the crunchy sound would have been the usual, brittle tone you get from a piezo through distortion. True tone control, no preamp.

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  • Glenn Reither June 29, 2012 at 12:08pm

    this is what a basic Tillman circuit looks like on perfboard http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/tillman-pre-my-build

  • Glenn Reither June 29, 2012 at 12:04pm

    I use the Tillman design with a couple of extra bits to even out the variance in FETs. I put a 50k trimpot in mine where R4 is because the output can be a bit hot otherwise. And if it's a dark-sounding box I add a cap to boost treble as per the info in the link. http://www.till.com/articles/GuitarPreamp/

    It's a basic and well-known circuit. So simple you can solder it up on a bit of perfboard. No doubt there will be plenty of people who say there are better designs, but this one suits me fine for a cbg.

  • bill June 29, 2012 at 11:49am

    i do like the sound you are getting with the tone control... but i would like to see a link to your preamp

  • Glenn Reither June 29, 2012 at 10:36am

    As per my Discussion on this, a preamp is still a superior option. You lose about 3db by using my tone pot solution and you still have an impedance problem. This gat would sound even better and drive an amp better if it used my usual preamp. But yeah, if you don't feel able to solder up a preamp circuit like the one I make, this is at least gives you what people have always said could not be done.

  • Maddog June 29, 2012 at 10:19am

    I'm with Tor, time to bust out the tone pots. Very nice Glenn!

  • darren brown June 29, 2012 at 8:54am

    sounds great nice and clean .

  • Tor Börve June 29, 2012 at 6:27am

     Great build with fantastic details! And...I get it,time to get some tone pots,sounds real good! Thanks!

     

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